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Gluten intolerance - Coeliac Disease

Food intolerance often comprise a co-morbidity in CFS and FM patients,  Emms et al., 2001.

Many CFS patients discover that they can no longer tolerate gluten [=a protein part of wheat and other flour sorts that makes bread rise], a condition that may be identical to Coeliac (Celiac) Disease,  Feighery, 1999 (pdf).   Many cases of CD go unnoticed,  Ivarsson et al., 1999,  and a high frequescy of CD markers are found among CFS patients,  Skowera et al., 2001.

A 2002-newspaper article reveals the gluten problem to be much higher than expected,  Guardian | Against the grain.  Gluten sensitivity and neurological symptoms, including ataxia, is connected - a NIH-study is recruiting new patients,  Gluten, NIH, 2002.  A new screening test for Gluten intolerance,  Gomez et al., 2002.  Symptoms may present themselves differently from classic knowledge and be like IBS,  Zipser et al., 2003.
 

Glutamate and Aspartame

Many patients discover they have difficulties with sodium glutamate, an ingredient originating from and heavily used in Chinese cooking, but now also widely used in western food industry. It is also known as 'the third spice' or "flavour enhancer" (E 621).  Likewise, the artificial sweetener Aspartame, present in Nutrasweet, Cola Light and many other sweet "light" products is know to affect patients.  Both glutamate and aspartame act as chemical brain messengers (excitotoxins) and thus affect the nervous system.  Here a report on 4 patients who were cured of FM when these substances were eliminated from their diet,  Smith et al., 2001.  A short note,  note, Aspartame, 2000.

In FM patients results point to vegan diet being beneficial,  Kaartinen et al., 2000, - whether or not this has to do with intolerances or allergy is unknown.
 

Environmental Sensitivity

A novel concept has seen day light, environmental sensitivity. This needs further studying,  Terr, 2003.
 

 
 
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